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i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM JANDUS, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, AND JOHN MCCARTHY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BLANK AND FILE FOR PLACING ITv THEREON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,001, dated March 25, 1890.

Application filed November 8, 1886. Serial No,218.231. (Ncmodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that We, WILLIAM JANDUS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, and JOHN MOCARTHY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Blanks and Files for Placing Them Therero on, of Which the following is a full and complete description.

The object of our invention is to obtain blanks registering in a determined and desired manner when imposed one sheet upon i5 another, either by being placed upon a file forming a part of the invention or by imposing them upon each other and registering them in the manner provided for in the construction of the sheets, but Without placing zo them on the iile, and a further object of our invention is to obtain a flle adapted for, the placing of such blanks thereon to register in such determined manner.

The use of the blanks embodying a porz 5 tion of this invention and adapted to register so that a determined part of each, with the record contained on such part, will be exposed to view, examination, and comparison with a like record contained on a like por- 3o tion or part of each and every other of such blanks When properly filled out, and imposed upon each other in a manner registering, as described, constitute one step in aprocess of handling material and keeping account, record, and continuous track thereof When the same is kept in more than one shop or storehouse pertaining or belonging to a manufactory, business, or corporation.

The invention is particularly adapted for 4o use Where like material is contained in more than one shop or store-house for use or storage, and an accurate record is required of such material at a central point, and Where certain of the information in such record concerning the material on hand in each of the shops or store-houses is desired in a form adapted to be compared with like information returned from each and every other of the shops or store-houses.

5o vThe manner in which this invention accomplishes the purpose sought is by constructing a blank having three or more holes or perforations on one side thereof at equal distance apart, which blank may be termed an abstract of material record-sheet,and which is 5 5 issued in duplicate to the several shops or store-houses, (having thereona distinguishingmark for each shop or store-house,) on which abstract of material record-sheet certain information is placed on a part of the sheet ar- 6o ranged so that When the several sheets returned from the shops or store-houses are imposed upon each other, with such perforations registering, that portion of one sheet containing such information is exposed to view and comparison With a like part of each and every other of such sheets. v

For the purpose of readily placing -these sheets in the manner described one upon another, We have invented a file having wires 7o arranged thereinv at equal distances apart and at like distance apart With the holes in the side of the abstract of material record-sheet, and by placing these sheets upon this file in the manner illustrated in Fig. 4t of the draW- 7 5v ings the determined and necessary information on each sheet so placed thereon is exposed to View; but in the use of that part of our invention embodied in the abstract of material record-sheets such sheets may be imposed 8o upon each other with the holes registering in like manner as When placed upon such file and there secured by stitching or other Wellknown means Without placing them on the files. After such sheets are placed upon the file in the manner illustrated in sai'd Fig. 4, such sheets may be secured together and removed from the ille and comparison made of the record contained in such part of the sheet as is exposed to view at any time thereafter, 9o the sheets being led, if desired, for further reference While thus attached together.

We have illustrated our invention by the drawings accompanying this specification, and forming a part hereof, in Whioh- Figure l is a sheet of paper forming a part of our invention and designed by us to be placed on the iile hereinafter described, and also forming a part of our invention, and this sheet of paper is indicated and termed by us an abstract of material record-sheet. Figs. 2 and 3 are different rulings" of said IOO sheet, but for all the essential parts thereof concerned in this application are identical with the sheet illustrated in Fig. l. Fig. i is a plan illustrating a form of our invention having several abstracts of material recordsheets placed thereon. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are perspective views of a file illustrating our invention and suitable for placing said abstract of material record-sheets thereon.

Like letters refer to like parts throughout the several views. I

A is a sheet having holes c, a a therein arranged at regular intervals near the margin thereof.

B is a file. f

l) l) l) are Wires arranged at regular intervals on le B. These wires l) Z) are placed at like distances apart, as are holes a a on sheet A.

C is a portion of the base of le B, and to which portion of said base Wires ZJ b are rig idly secured. C is a portion of the base of said file B, secured by hinges to part C of said base and turns freely on said hinges.

In order that our invention and its method of operation may be fully understood the following description of the Working of the same is given: Upon the sheet of paper with holes arranged therein and near the margin thereof, at regular distances apart,there areplaced under suitable headings marks indicating the articles, an account and record of which it is proposed to keep upon said sheet. There is also on the sheet, suitably separated from the place where the mark designating the article is made, a place for miscellaneous remarks concerning such article, and there is also on the sheet a place for Writing any other information desired concerning the articles named on the sheet. There is also on each sheet an ordinal number or an initial letter A S C', and so on, or other marks furnishing means for identifying sheets, duplicates in all respects excepting in said number, initial letter or mark, and excepting in the information placed on said sheet concerning the article indicated thereon, during the keeping of the accounts of said articles. The said numbers or the said initial letters or marks are used to designate different shops or store-houses adapted to contain articles such as are indicated by the marks on said duplicate sheets. It will thus be seen that where the articles placed 011 said sheet are kept in stock in two or more shops or store-houses, by the use of our invention and by the registering of the sheets so prepared by us with marginal holes therein, either' upon said illes or by other means, there will be exposed to view a like part of each of the sheets, and a person may readily compare the information concerning any given article contained in any given sliep or store-house with information concerning the same article contained in any other given shop or storehouse, and by any agreed or understood series of marks placed on the portion of the sheets exposed to view when the same are registered as described, any desired change in the location of any article or any portion of said article, or any purchase replacing or increasing of the amount on hand of any article, may be readily indicated on said sheets, or any of them, as desired.

The manner of operation of our invention is as follows: Any information desired to be recorded on said sheet is placed thereon under the several headings prepared, and so much of this information as it is desired to compare with other sheets containing a like rceord of like articles in other shops or storehouses is placed on the sheet so that when all the sheets required (one for each shop or store-house) are registered by imposing them upon each other, so that the first perforation in the second sheet Will register with the sccond perforation in the first sheet, the first perforation in the third sheet (Where a third sheet is required) will register with the second perforation in the second sheet and the third perforation in the first sheet, the first perforation of the fourth sheet will register with the second perforation in the third sheet, the third perforation of the second sheet, and the fourth perforation of the first sheet, and so on,

comparison of such information may be read` ily had.

The file illustrated in the drawings accompanying this specification and hereinbefore described is one well adapted for the placing thereon of the several blanks so that such blanks will be imposed on each other in the manner last above described, and upon which file such sheet when so placed thereon may afterward be turned over out of the Way, though still remaining thereon, and other sheets may then be placed upon the file having like information concerning other articles contained in the shops or store-houses, arranged in like manner upon the blanks and adapted to be compared, as described; but it is evident that after a given number of sheets have been placed on this file and made to register thereon as described, such sheets may be secured together by stitching or gumming or any other Well-known means in such registerin g position, and may then bc taken from theiile and the comparison made thereafter. In such case it is evident that the Wires forming a part of the file need not extend in a halfcirele, as illustrated in the drawings, but may be rigidly secured vertically upon the base of the file.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

l. The combination of two or more blank record-sheets, having three or more equally distant perforations in a margin thereof, with a file composed of three or more parallel wires at like distancesapart as are such perforations and in correspondence therewith, said sheets being imposed upon each other on the wires with less than all of the perforations of one blank over the perforations of the adja- IOO IIO

cent blank, thereby exposing to View a determined marginal portion of the blank sheets, substantially as described.

2. The combination of three or more Wires rigidly secured parallel to each other and at equal distances apart in a base-board, forming a ile for blanks, blank sheets having an equal number of marginal perforations with p the Wires and at the same distance apart as are the Wires and placed upon the Wires With less than all of the perforations of one sheet lying over the perforations of the adjacent sheet, whereby the sheets may be registered as placed on said iile to expose to View a determined marginal portion of each,` as and for the purpose described.

3. A series of blank record-sheets, each having three or more equally distant perforations in a margin thereof, imposed upon each other so that less than the Whole number of perforations in one blank will lie over the perforations of the adjacent blank, whereby a marginal portion of each blank is exposed to View, substantially as described.

WILLIAM JANDUS. f JOHN MCCARTHY. Witnesses:

DANL. SHULL, WM. L. BLAIR, LAWRENCE P. BoYLE, N. H. SMITH. 

